A project by PhotoIreland, OVER Journal launched its first issue in July 2020, and it has enjoyed a growing interest reaching rapidly all corners of the global market, from Zurich...
OVER Journal issue 2 Published by PhotoIreland256 pages184 × 245 mmSoftcoverISBN 9781916140424 Co-editorsAidan Kelly Murphy, Julia Gelezova, Ángel Luis González. Peer Review PanelDaniel Boetker-Smith, Dr. Justin Carville, Alejandro Castellote, Dr. Mohini Chandra, Irina Chmyreva, Yining...
OVER journal is a new periodical publication and online platform that proposes its readers a more wholesome, honest, and critical observation and enjoyment of Photography. Publishing commissioned texts and artworks...
Ringforts are Ireland’s most common archaeological monument, liberally spread throughout the countryside. Seen as circular enclosures in the rural landscape and many existent for hundreds and thousands of years, they...
The front is trauma, that shapeless frontier line when you are at war with yourself, the nostalgia that traps your soul, condemns your dreams, confines your growth. That bed of...
The photographs in House Rules present participatory acts and events that unfolded over a fixed period of time in a family home. All images adhere to the parameters that they...
In Dublin, the enforced closure of pubs and bars due to Covid-19 was soon followed by many taking the decision to board up their windows, suddenly giving a once vibrant...
Age twelve, I borrowed my parents’ box camera. The world opened up; seeing the land, watching the land, observing the land, considering the land, studying the land, perceiving the land....
"The Random View pays tribute to the towns of the west of Ireland. Thirty years ago—a lifetime—I first came to Ireland. Surrounded by sublime scenery I found ordinary towns, ordinary life,...
I have a complex relationship with my family and with Northern Ireland, where I grew up—it feels governed by a tension between distance and closeness. We think of our self...
The series of images examines the relationship between the photograph, body, and urban space in the context of globalised production and neoliberal governance. The work, set in Dublin and Helsinki,...
Matera is a symbol of rebirth, rising from extreme and prolonged difficulties. For decades referred to as the shame of Italy, it rose to become a jewel, nominated as a...
In 2018 and 2019 Helio León was invited to Marfa, Texas, by Marfa Open Arts Festival. This work is the result of his stay. These photographs reveal a fascination with...
Growing up in Dublin in the late 70’s-early 80’s, there were plenty of outdoor religious events such as the blessing of the animals, the cross being carried by locals in...
While this title is sold out, PhotoIreland can provide copies exclusively to libraries and collection, and for educational purposes only. Get in touch: info@thelibraryproject.ie. Wayside is a condensed, fleeting road...
Growing up, I always felt that the only place to find adventure would be outside this island. I wanted to explore, to see new places, to have new experiences. And...
Flatten traces the human presence on the landscape of rural Ireland. It was created in and around Wexford’s Blackstairs Mountain during a residency at Cow House Studios. The artist focused...
There are nocturnal visitors. The quiet unseen life of the world when the traffic has stopped, and the planes are grounded. There is no more busyness now to distract the...
The series is produced from interactions with people and communities in the location of Moore Street Dublin – a historical quarter famously known as being the soul of city trading....
The work F20.5 depicts the confrontation of the artist’s own childhood, during which her father suffered from residual schizophrenia. Through the reconstruction of Lizde’s own past and reinterpretation of the...
One Hundred Seconds To Midnight explores the tumultuous relationship between Breen’s father and himself as the father battles stints in and out of prison, as well as a battle with...
On 30 April 2020, District Magazine, Junior Magazine, and PhotoIreland announced the launch of A New Normal, an open call created in response to an unprecedented event in our life-times: we...
Proverbs is an ongoing body of work using photographic images and audio recordings that engage with the contemporary landscape of Uganda, exploring its layers of memory. While the age-old Ugandan...
The King's Road was built in 1694 by King Charles II as a private thoroughfare stretching from St James’ Palace to Fulham. In more recent years, it became known as...
Lebanon is a country that has been in a continued state of flux for decades. After a bitter civil war was fought for over 15 years, a truce was agreed...
Accidentally touch someone else’s fingers while going for the hand rail on the bus. Awkwardly side step to the same direction and do it a second time. Press the cross...
Every year, thousands gather during the last week of July to attend the Galway Races, Ireland’s historic horse racing event. The ensuing chaos provides cover for Galway’s youth to engage...
The emergence of the tourist gaze was largely brought into being by the invention of the camera. The newly invented medium adopted the aesthetics of 19th Century approaches to landscape...
This body of work was made over a short period of time spent in rural Wexford, Ireland, “in a place so overwhelmingly familiar to me, it was as though I...
Reasons is a photographic documentation of the artist’s experiential perception through a meditative journey. Cristina Gismondi uses this form of photographic reflection in order to process the energy that humans...
A once super rich oil nation, Venezuela is now home to some of the highest crime statistics on the planet, hyper currency inflation, a severely damaged health care system, and...
A huge labyrinth skirts the outer rims of the city of Caracas, climbing up and over the valleys. It is Petare, home to some two million people and the highest...
Marrow by Jane Cummins is a work-in- progress body of work created during a recent six-week residency at Belfast Exposed, Northern Ireland. The series explores a new stage in the...
While this title is sold out, PhotoIreland can provide copies exclusively to libraries and collection, and for educational purposes only. Get in touch: info@thelibraryproject.ie. The photographs in Verges examine the potential for...
The decade 1982-92 was a difficult time for Irish women. The 8th amendment to the constitution passed in 1983 made it not just illegal to obtain an abortion in Ireland...
While this title is sold out, PhotoIreland can provide copies exclusively to libraries and collection, and for educational purposes only. Get in touch: info@thelibraryproject.ie.Swimmers come to the sea for many...
Sarah Cullen’s work creates a psychological landscape within the domestic space in order to explore the experiences of pregnant people in Ireland who are faced with crisis pregnancies. By interrupting...
Moyross was constructed in 1970 on the outskirts of Limerick City as a solution to a growing housing crisis. After the initial years of hope and optimism passed, Moyross began...
While this title is sold out, PhotoIreland can provide copies exclusively to libraries and collection, and for educational purposes only. Get in touch: info@thelibraryproject.ie.Lay Her Down Upon Her Back is...
Ephemeral Uncertainty evokes the split second when rational thinking is challenged by a seemingly inexplicable occurrence of sensation, either visual or auditory. Such an occurrence can produce an uncanny effect,...
Busy on the streets and in buildings hidden out of view, congregating in everyday places, the Japanese in all those built up colossal cities work hard and long hours to...
Descendants is inspired by the connections between Spain and Ireland. The work is concerned with the myths and legends of both countries and those journeys which never wither from memory...
The male psyche is a problematic entity, and when drawn out into the harsh light of analysis and discussion reels, yearning to retreat back into the darkness. In Modern Ireland,...
Since the end of the Second World War and throughout the Cold War, devices have been developed which aim to affect the human nervous system, and ultimately manipulate thinking in...
This work is a study of space, in particular the functional spaces of the theatre. Below the stage, they act as a metaphor for the staging of reality that underlies...
Matera is one of the oldest cities on Earth. pre-dating the Pyramids and even Newgrange, this place holds an ancient memory, as well as all the trappings of modernity as...
What is it like to be in a relationship and be constantly separated from your lover? Fragments is a long-term black and white series in which Giulia Berto explores how...
South of Cancer is a topographical narrative in a non-specified location below the Tropic of Cancer. It is an environment of emergence and formation where knowledge of both the self...
A banged up tube TV; a studded pair of roller-skates; a handmade budgie box. At first glance these goods might seem better suited for a landfill. But at The Hill...
In Finglas during the 1970s, an area known as Dunsink, a wild place mostly used for recreational purposes by the local community for walks and amateur horse racing, was destroyed....
In 2018, a brochure entitled “If War Or Crisis Comes” was sent to every household in Sweden by the government with the purpose of informing citizens how to act in...
During his two days in Ireland for the World Meeting of Families in August of 2018, Pope Francis made three public appearances, culminating in a mass in Phoenix Park. In...
An ongoing series that conceptualises photography as an act of prayer with a central focus of the work being concerned with Irish histories. The work reflects on multiple concerns dealing...
Male DJ's get booked more for festivlas and club nights than females on a regular basis. In the years 2017-2019, only 20.5% of festival acrys were female, while 70.3% were...
Let’s Take the Wrong Way Home is a collection of photomontage works representing landscapes that do not exist, an exercise in creation, destruction and after Vilém Flusser ‘playing against the...
Remembering the past always comes with an image or view attached. The Transcendence of Innocent Objects uses this premise to examine humankind’s continual forging of polymorphous stories. Exploring the remote...
In these works, Sibéal performs “healing rituals” as a means of healing the mind and body. This body of work is where we first see her exploring performance within the...
Rumours, secrets and absent memories can affect the stories we tell about ourselves and where we come from. Conflicting narratives, faulty recollections and admonishments often bring unsettling questions to the...
Paradise Lost forms a portrait of an idyllic environment, a place, which has offered refuge for humans, animals, and flora. The lake and surrounding woodland have been sold. There remains...
Situated in the struggle between the greed for riches and love for the natural world, this work centres on humankind’s desire to devastate and destroy for profit. It portrays an...
Paradise Lost commemorates a lake and woodland, untouched and left to grow wild. Home to an abundance of nature, it was a place to be alone, to reflect. It was...
From the mid 70’s through the 80’s, Saint Patrick’s Day was very special for Frank Miller. While often he shot the parade as a staffer for the Irish Press Group,...
Within their subterranean layers, bogs hold remarkable preservative qualities, with the power to absorb and reveal the past in material form. Beofhód, an Irish word translating as ‘life beneath the...
Hill Close Gardens captures the timelessness of one of the last groups of the detached Victorian pleasure gardens in the UK. The gardens date back to 1845 and were tended...
Following Catholic Emancipation churches were built across the country and with them grew networks of mass paths. A Well Trodden Path, explores the heritage of mass paths in Lackagh Co...
While balancing unpaid emotional and domestic labour with full time paid work, Emma O'Brien placed her photographic practice on hold. It was an indulgence she couldn't afford, Motherhood demanded this...
Alec Moore’s new work In Drift reflects on our commonality and kinship with life in the landscape. These explorations took place during the lockdowns and uncertainty that came with the...
Figure-ground perception is the cognitive mechanism through which we apprehend our surroundings, isolating the figure – the words on the page, the features of a face, the lines on a...
You write stories of love into places and then it so often turns to pain. These places that have held me and the people I love become places of loss,...
Ireland’s archaeological monuments are evidence of a long and fascinating history. They are in a sense part of the very essence of the country, without which we would all be...
Irish Summers brings together a selection of images Harry Gruyaert made on trips to Ireland over the period 1983-84. While some of these photographs are included in a number of...
Hunt the Wren is a photobook by image-maker Andrew Nuding which explores the bizarre and absurd in rural Irish festivals. The photobook focuses on the ritualistic practices, costumes and performances...
Shot between 2013 and 2014, If you lived here, you'd be home by now questions the existence and function of Ireland's ghost estates - housing estates that were built throughout...
Spice boxes. Pilot training schools. Otters. God. Ireland’s roadsides are home to a shifting population of mad, bad, unauthorised advertisements. Some are temporarily rolled into fields on trailers, ready for...
Pavilion Books’ Lost series traditionally looks at the cherished places of a city that time, progress and fashion have swept aside. However, using the new expanded 176-page format of the...
Peter O' Doherty is a Dublin based documentary photographer. By trade he is a videographer and since 2003 he has been capturing the changing city combining hid love of photography...
Photographer Gregory Dunn's second Photobook on Dublin and its people. Portrayed is based in Stoneybatter, where the photographer has lived for almost 30 years.
Published by Zero GEdition of 400Hardcover96 pages170 × 190 mmISBN 9780956043986
Taking Ulysses as a guide, Deirdre Brennan explores the changing face of Dublin over the last decade, capturing the rich tapestry of the city and its inhabitants in a series...
For Those That Tell No Tales began as a series of conversations between Dara McGrath and Dan Breen, curator of Cork Public Museum, around how the museum and Cork city...
In 1991, Krass Clement travelled to Ireland at the invitation of the Tyrone Guthrie Centre, a trip which resulted in Clement’s best known publication Drum. Clement spent several weeks in Ireland applying his philosophy...
In 130 photographs from the early 1990s, Wally Cassidy captures pre-boom Dublin in all its tattered glory. Loosely divided into four sections – Street, Protest, Smithfield and Punks – these...
As part of the 1916 commemorations, the Royal Hibernian Academy approached the photographer David Farrell to consider responding to the broader global situation of that time with the war in Europe raging on...
The work imprints the rituals, decisive moments and flow of a GAA club game onto the backdrop of the local environment. Football, hurling, camogie and ladies football games – Ireland’s...
‘Dawn walks during the pandemic of 2020. A time of mourning, a time of sin-eating, a time of discovery, a time of quietude, a time of nature, and a time...
Knowing her friend’s appetite for rough-hewn landscape and the minutia of family networks, Aisling Farinella invited photographer Linda Brownlee to visit her relatives in the Italian village of Gangi. This...
These 89 black & white photographs taken by Alen MacWeeney in Dublin in 1963/5 are spontaneous images of Dublin and Dubliners in all areas of the city, a street odyssey...
“Days in Derry are long. There’s not a whole lot to do except hang out, wasting time. Essentially I am imposing my ideas of youth, freedom, beauty and rebellion on...
While balancing unpaid emotional and domestic labour with full-time paid work, Emma O'Brien placed her photographic practice on hold. It was an indulgence she couldn't afford; Motherhood demanded this sacrifice....
Dennis Dinneen was born in 1927 in the small market town of Macroom, County Cork. In 1944 he was studying medicine at University College Cork when his father passed away...
Dublin Streets, an ongoing project, was born out of Lorcan’s love for the mini dramas he witnessed unfolding on our streets and the incredible Dublin characters who star in them....
This substantial review of Eamonn Doyle's practice has been published to accompany a large exhibition that took place at Mapfre Foundation 12 September 2019 to 26 January 2020, Madrid. Including...
As the sixteenth instalment of their ‘Books on Books Project’, New York-based publisher Errata Editions re-released Krass Clement's photobook Drum, photographed in an Irish pub on a single evening with only...
“This then, I thought, as I looked round about me, is the representation of history. It requires a falsification of perspective. We, the survivors, see everything from above, see everything...
One features images from a recently made collection of unique, bespoke-process, large format, gelatin silver contact prints. Published by D1Softcover with printed double black and screen-printed coverNumbered edition of 30024...
Number two in a series of publications by Eamonn Doyle.
Published by D1Numbered edition of 300Softcover, screen-printedCover unfolds out to double sided poster70 pages450 x 300 mmISBN 9780992848767
Doug DuBois (born 1960) was first introduced to a group of teenagers from the Russell Heights housing estate while he was an artist-in-residence in Cobh, on the southwest coast of...
Kingdom is a homage to the landscape of Kerry that has provided me with endless inspiration for the last 30 years. The book reveals my close connection to this rugged...
To the Beat of the Drum comprises photographs of youthful members of Northern Ireland’s militaristic, Protestant marching bands, who McConnell carefully situates under the trippy magic of his super-chromatic, hedonistic lighting....
People of the Mud is a powerful new series by Berlin-based US artist Luis Alberto Rodriguez, made collaboratively amongst the communities of County Wexford in Ireland, where ancient tradition and...
An iconic project made at the height of the ‘Troubles’, Troubled Land deals with the small but insistent signs of political division embedded in the landscape of Northern Ireland. At...
Originally from Chicago, Ryan W. Kennihan has been working in Dublin since 2007 and has taught at various universities. His architecture is reserved, peaceful and elegant. Each building is a...
For over 30 years Simon Watson has exhibited his photographs in Europe and the U.S. including solo shows at the late Richard Anderson Gallery in New York and the Auschwitz...
For over three decades Simon Watson has exhibited both his photographs and paintings in Europe and the U.S. His work is included in museums, public and private collections. Watson has...
Isabel Nolan’s expansive practice incorporates paintings, sculpture, photographs, textile work, work on paper and writing. ‘Curling up with reality’ brings together a survey of her work over the last decade...
Crossing by artist Dorothy Cross is a visual retrospective spanning over 35 years of her work as one of Ireland’s leading artists. The book includes a foreword by Edna O’Brien,...
Prudence and the Game of Golf is a photobook of works by artist Abigail O’Brien RHA. The third exploration of The Natural Virtues to which Temperance, 2009 and Fortitude, 2005...
While artist Abigail O’Brien was in the UK taking photos of the iconic Aston Martin sports car, the #MeToo movement was revving up around the world. Prince Andrew was being...
Abigail O’Brien’s Temperance is a cauldron of brimful of complexities, contradictions and dualities set in the context of an iconic Donegal sweet factory. This photobook was created after the artist...
While bread and the craft of making it are nearly as old as civilisation itself, Pain au levain was the first leavened bread, probably discovered in Egypt six thousand years...
A quarterly journal of fine art, design, architecture, photography, sculpture, heritage, decorative arts and crafts. The Spring 23 edition boasts a superb selection of articles to enjoy, from artists On...
According to A.T. Lucas, in his book Furze, A Survey and History of its Uses in Ireland (1960), “There are two general English names [for gorse] current in the country....
handiwork is a contemplative short narrative from acclaimed writer and visual artist Sara Baume. It charts her daily process of making and writing, exploring what it is to create and...
-Suitable for all ages- 'In Irish there are so many great rain words and magic words and highly specific natural words (such as the material put on the hooves of...
“… every poem is a queering of language; every poetry critic is a critic of the queer; every reader of poetry is engaged in a queer act; every performance of...
The Irish language has thirty-two words for field. Among them are: Geamhar – a field of corn-grass Tuar – a field for cattle at night Réidhleán – a field for...
Ireland is an island surrounded by ocean, with a high percentage of its population living in the coastal zone and has often been referred to as an “island nation”. The...
This is Our Place: A Survey of Dalymount Park the Home of Irish Football contains 29 drawings from the map of Dalymount Park along with three commissioned essays: Dr Margarita...
